Historical dream account · English · original text
The shared flask
Havelock Ellis
The World of Dreams (1922) · Printed page 84; normalized HTML paragraph block 160
I imagined that, following the example of a friend, I gave some cigarettes to a tramp we had casually met, and that, in return, we felt compelled to drink some raw gin he carried. I did so with some misgiving as to the possible results of drinking from a tramp's flask, but although in real life I had not tasted gin for many years, the hot burning taste of the spirit was very distinct.
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A historical dream account recorded in Havelock Ellis’s The World of Dreams, using its 1922 edition (first published 1911). The source distinguishes Ellis’s own dreams from separately identified or unnamed contributors. This is not a Synastry community submission.
Havelock Ellis, The World of Dreams (Constable & Company, 1922; first published 1911), p. 84. Public-domain historical dream account, Project Gutenberg transcription.
Individual dream date not specified; exact excerpt from 1922 edition of work first published in 1911.
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Printed page 84; normalized HTML paragraph block 160
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Content notes
- Alcohol or tobacco
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